June 03, 2013 WSOP Supplement Issue

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Rex Clinkscales Wins Harrah’s
Philadelphia Main
Event
In his 15th WSOP
Circuit Final
Table appearance,
Clinkscales finally
gets the win
Luke Graham Wins
WSOP-C Main Event at
Harrah’s New Orleans
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After four days of play,
the 2012-13 World Series
of Poker Circuit Harrah’s
New Orleans Main Event
came to an end on Monday
as Luke Graham emerged
victorious over a 762-player
field to capture a $228,600
first-place prize and a
seat into the National
Championship.
(Continued on page 3)
Rex Clinkscales has finally
done it. After falling short
of the win in 14 career
WSOP Circuit Final Tables,
he is at long last the proud
owner of a WSOP Circuit
gold ring.
Clinkscales emerged the
victor late Monday night in
the Harrah’s Philadelphia
Main Event, taking home
$121,095 and his first
WSOP Circuit gold ring.
“This is unbelievable,”
said Clinkscales after the
win. “Every Final Table,
I’ve run so bad. I’m just
glad that I don’t have to
hear it anymore from people
about not having a ring.”
With the win, Clinkscales
makes his exit from the
fraternity of players, who
time and time again, have
climbed high but have failed
to reach the proverbial
mountain top. This year’s
Main Event drew its largest
field ever with 351 players,
generating a total prize pool
of $526,500. Day one consisted of two starting flights.
By the end of the day’s play,
Rachel Kranz, a novelist
and amateur poker player
from New York, NY held a
commanding chip lead.
Twists and Turns Continue
for PokerStars
and Atlantic Club
Casino and
by Wendeen H. Eolis
Hotel
Last March poker aficionados attending the annual
“ATLARGE” gathering in
Atlantic City, were energized like never before.
The buzz in the Atlantic
Club and Casino and Hotel
(ACC) poker room that
weekend was all good
news. PokerStars, a staunch
supporter of the online
poker community had
announced its intentions
to purchase the Atlantic
Club Casino and Hotel
(ACC), the property at
which they were meeting.
New Jersey had recently
legalized online poker.
And the world’s largest
and most popular online
poker site was poised to
obtain an Interim Casino
Authorization (ICA).
PokerStars had fast plans
to take online poker forward in a big way on these
American shores.
The ATLARGE revelers
along with ACC personnel
and associates of PokerStars
celebrated together their
expectations of a fast slam
dunk deal. Steve Eisenstein,
a member of the law firm
Lum, Drasco, and Positan,
LLC, and an avid poker
enthusiast was one of the
attendees at the ATLARGE
festivities; he could not
have imagined at that time
what would come of the
deal, all too soon.
Two months later, the
New Jersey law firm at
which he practices was
hired by PokerStars to sue
the ACC in an effort to
preserve its investment and
protect its plans to purchase
the ACC property. It was
the Firm’s first engagement with Poker Stars
according to Eisenstein,
who was otherwise more
circumspect than informative as to the possible next
steps in this progressively
messy situation. He is
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and its principals in
the U.S. Department of
Justice’s prosecution of
their online poker activities in America, for this
matter the Company relied
upon a small local law
firm with long roots in the
Garden State dating back to
1870. PokerStars’ selection
of LDP, reflects its wellknown view of the online
poker community as a reservoir of talent to do work
on its behalf.
Although his primary
specialty is in employment law and related
litigation, name partner
Wayne Positan was tapped
as lead counsel for the
PokerStars lawsuit against
ACC. Positan knows his
way around the New Jersey
Courts and is highly regarded among practitioners
in firms large and small
who have come to know
him. The matter has been
a shared effort according
to Eisenstein, a business
lawyer with substantial
experience in environmental law and real estate. He
also includes litigation as a
regular part of his portfolio.
And, Eisenstein, a former
organizer of ATLARGE
gatherings brings to the
table an understanding of
the poker world to go with
his legal skills.
Why Did ACC Jilt
Poker Stars?
PokerStars’ path from its
Isle of Man headquarters to
the shoreline of New Jersey
has been periodically disrupted over the years by a
fair share of sticky wickets,
but by all outward appearances, during the early
spring, Stars was on track
to purchase the struggling
casino —subject to approval of New Jersey regulators-until the ACC saw a way
(Cont’d from page 1)
out of the shockingly low
price of 15 million dollars
it had negotiated for itself
as the sale price –before
legalization of online poker
in the State and prior to its
improved earnings in the
early months of 2013.
The Birth and Death
of the Deal
It is no secret that
PokerStars has had its eye
firmly trained on becoming a pre-eminent force in
the new world of licensed,
regulated and taxed online
gambling in the United
States following settlement of the civil charges
brought against the company in 2011 by the U.S.
Department of Justice.
As part of the settlement agreement reached,
PokerStars bought the
brand of its arch rival, Full
Tilt and paid a massive fine
to the U.S Government
without admitting wrongdoing. (Neither did the DOJ
withdraw its allegations
of wrongdoing). The final
lynchpin to the settlement
was Isai Scheinberg’s obligation to give up his leadership role with PokerStars, at
least until/unless a resolution of his personal case, at
which time the matter could
be reviewed. Scheinberg
remains indicted and has
yet to face the related
criminal charges that were
brought against him in the
case U.S. v Scheinberg et
al.
PokerStars and the ACC
reportedly opened discussions in October. Poker
Stars insiders say the initiative was a strategic move
by the Stars that reflected
an abundance of “wellplaced confidence” in the
prospects for legalization
of online poker and for
approval of a casino license
to the Company.
The process of regulatory consideration, however, went into an unexpected full on tailspin.
The American Gaming
Association opposed licensure of PokerStars. Then
PokerStars was delayed or
dawdled in its final submission for the license application. And, the hearing to
determine the Company’s
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Reflection and
Remembrance
Tom’s Poker Topics
By TOM McEVOY
This column has several personal thoughts I
would like to share with my readers. There are
two people who have had a major impact on my
poker career. One of them is not a household
name in the poker world, and the other is. That
being said, both of them have had a tremendous
influence on my life. The first person is Dana
Smith, who wrote under the name of Shane
Smith. At the time she was writing poker books
and articles, she thought if people did not know
she was a woman, she would get more respect
for her work.
If you ever got to know her, you would realize that she is a tremendous writing talent and
was the driving force and inspiration for all but
my very first book. I told her that when she was
ready to quit and retire from writing books with
me, I would quit too, and so far that has been
the case. All the books I wrote after my initial
one were because of her. She moved to Las
Vegas from Bakersfield, California to try and talk
me into doing another poker tournament book
with her as the editor. I said no at first and she
waited nine months and tried again. This time I
said yes, and it was one of the best decisions I
ever made.
The other person who has a major impact on
my poker career is the legendary T.J. Cloutier.
T.J. has probably won more tournaments in the
$500 and up category than any player in history.
The only tournament of note that he failed to
win was the WSOP main event, and even then his
record has been outstanding- finishing 2nd in
the main event, TWICE! After the Success of my
first book with Dana, she and I talked it over as
to who would be a good person to work with on
another book. We came to one conclusion—T.J.
I had known and played with him for years, and
I was well aware that he was not a writer, but
that didn’t bother me. I knew he was one of the
greatest players that ever lived and between me
and Dana, we could drag the information out of
him to make more books. That we did, and the
three of us produced 4 books together. T.J. eventually did one last book with just Dana.
Now that I have talked about two of my best
friends in the poker world, I would like to reflect,
briefly, on two other people that I knew personally and have recently left us. One is the well
known Jerry Buss. Much has already been written about him, but I would like to say that he was
a very down to earth guy. You could talk to him
and you would never know how much success
and influence he had by the way he behaved—
always a gentleman. The other man who recently
passed was Al Miskin, often called “big Al”
because of his size. He had a highly classified
job with the National Security Administration for
a number of years, and when he finally retired
he devoted himself to his passion for poker and
horses. He was a very successful cash game
player, especially in 7 card stud, and won a few
tournaments too. He was always willing to help
a friend and give advice when needed. I will miss
him, and so will a lot of his friends.
Tom McEvoy is the 1983 World Series of Poker
Champion and the author of numerous
strategy books on poker.
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June 3, 2013
Caro’s Word: “Stabilize”
conTinueD FROM PAGE 1
Over
decades,
I’ve identified one of
the main reasons that the
majority of skillful poker
players fail to win. It’s surprising, and it isn’t what
you think.
It has to do with their
inability to “stabilize.”
And in today’s self-interview, I’ll explain what I
mean.
Question 1: What does
the word “stabilize” have
to do with poker?
A lot. Like I said, it
describes one of the primary reasons that poker
players lose.
Question 2: Before we
get to that, you said it
was “one of the primary
reasons” for failure to
win. What are some of
the other reasons?
Besides an inability to
stabilize, which I’ll discuss
shortly, presuming that
you ask relevant questions,
there are several reasons
for failure.
Going on tilt is one.
Competing against too
strong a group of opponents is another. Being
cheated is one, also. Not
treating poker as a business, playing too large for
their bankrolls, playing
too creatively, entering too
many pots, not choosing
the right seats, and poor
game selection are others.
Question 3: Wow!
Interesting list. Is going on
tilt really that common a
reason for losing money at
poker?
I can see that you’re
obsessed with the list I
provided. That means this
interview will probably
degenerate into a discussion about it, rather than
failure to stabilize. But
that’s okay, because I
can explain stabilization
quickly, whenever you get
around to asking.
The answer to this question is yes. Going on tilt,
also called “steaming” by
some, means losing emotional control and playing
substandard poker. It’s
so common that almost
all superior poker players
lose considerable money
because of it.
The best ones end up
making a profit despite
this grave deficiency. But
many are destroyed by it.
Tilt happens because poker
is frustrating. You can wait
hours for the perfect cards
in the right situation and
get crushed by an inferior
hand that shouldn’t even
have been played. You can
be embarrassed when you
make a daring call that
loses. You can be frustrated
by a long drought when no
playable cards come your
way.
It’s human nature to
want to get your money
back right away. So you
force the issue and play
inferior hands, make desperate bets and raises, call
too often, whatever. You’re
on tilt.
Solution: Pretend you’re
taking over for someone else right now. So,
in effect, you’re starting
even. And you really are.
Each hand is a new beginning, and you’re starting
even. Say that to yourself,
over and over: “Each hand
is a new beginning, and
I’m starting even.” Really,
I mean it. Say it. Make it a
habit. Soon, you won’t be
a tilt victim anymore. And,
better still, you’ll actually
be making money from
players, even if they’re
a little superior to you in
theory, simply because
they will go on tilt sometimes and you won’t.
Question 4: Good. I
get that. What about the
next cause of failure you
listed, competing against
too strong a group of
opponents?
Okay, I see where this
is going. I simply listed
those things off the top of
my head. There have been
other things I’ve talked
about that cause players to
lose. But let me humor you
and save you the trouble of
asking about each problem
I listed individually.
Competing against
opponents stronger than
you are is obviously not
a path to poker profit.
And being a very strong
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There’s an old phrase, “Nothing good
in life comes easy.” If you’ve played
enough poker, you know that this relates
well to what we have to deal with when
we sit down to play on the felt. To succeed in the poker arena, we are essentially throwing ourselves to the wolves, and must realize that we will have to push through a pain barrier in
order to get pleasure, or in our case, win money.
As a general rule, most players start out tighter and
work themselves into more situations where they get
involved in hands. Especially in tournaments, the tight
players that are simply trying to survive, ultimately
have very little chance at hitting a top-3 score. With
progressive payouts, it basically makes it “risky” to
play too tight. We don’t often think of not making a
move as “risky” - but when you put it in the context
of our goal (of scoring a top spot at the final table), it
is just that.
It’s safe to say that when you’re watching the WSOP
Main Event final table, that as a whole, not a single
player played snug and was able to make it there without making a host of moves. This is nothing new: it’s
been this way since the days of Stu Ungar - the more
aggressive (and loose) players tend to have a better
shot at the top spots. The same thing goes for cash
games as well. Doyle Brunson wasn’t known for simply
out-smarting his opponents; he also bullied them out
of pots left, right and center.
Remember that you don’t have to be a maniac to
be successful playing tournaments - you just have to
take advantage of opportune times to apply selective
aggression. I think of it like this: there are, let’s say, 15
times in a tournament that I’m going to be able to pick
up chips without a hand. Whether that’s pre-flop or
post-flop, I’m constantly searching for those instances
when everything lines up and provides me a profitable
spot to make my move. In my mind, if I make too few
moves I’m leaving money on the table and if I make
too many moves, I’m costing myself money. There’s no
perfect equation that we can follow, but the point is,
if we’re not actively trying to identify these positive
instances, they very likely will go by unnoticed (and
un-acted upon).
I always give the crude example to new students:
everyone has a friend that is ugly, but is still able to
successfully interact with the opposite sex (assuming they’re straight). The general rule of thumb is “if
you’re looking for it, you’ll find it.” The buddy that
goes to the bar and hits on every woman is much
more likely to leave with a woman than the good looking guy that keeps to himself. Crude as it might sound,
for the most part, it’s true. It’s the same with poker; if
we’re looking for situations where we can manipulate
our opponents, we’ll find them.
The next time you sit down to play poker, stay on
the offensive and look for these spots where you can
pick up chips. The blinds and antes will always be
increasing in tournaments and we aren’t afforded the
luxury of resting on our laurels. The key to succeeding in tournaments is to focus on chip accumulation.
If you’re a player that is still not comfortable playing outside of your comfort-zone, simply realize that
you’re actually taking on more risk than you might
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Poker in Ohio, Part 2
of 2—Cleveland
CARD SENSE
By ASHLEY ADAMS
The first part of this two-part article was a
report on the Hollywood Casino in Toledo,
Ohio, a poker room I enjoyed. I stopped there on a trip through
Ohio with my daughter, Hannah, to visit my brother, Lee, in
Minnesota. I stopped at another Ohio poker room, the Horseshoe
in Cleveland, on my way back to Boston.
This is a beautiful downtown casino. It is in the former
Higbee’s department store. Parking is free in a multi-storied
parking garage across the street. Higbee’s was a Cleveland
landmark and was the famous location of the movie A Christmas
Story. I enjoyed walking around in and seeing the old architecture that I had seen first in the movie.
The casino is three stories high, with the 30-table poker room
aptly on the top. I was impressed with how many different games
were going. When we arrived on a Wednesday evening there were
roughly twelve $1/2 no limit hold’em games, three $2/5 games,
a $5/10 game, a few $3 - $6 limit hold’em game, a $1/2 pot limit
Omaha game, and a $2/5 pot limit Omaha game.
The PLO games seemed particularly vibrant, with easily
$2,000 on the 9-person $1/2 table. That’s a huge amount for such
a $300 maximum game. The $2/5 game was even larger—with
well over $4K on the table. I’m not sure what accounts for such
large stacks at so early a mid-week hour—but if I were a decent
PLO player (which I’m not) I would want to try it out. As it was, I
only ventured into the relatively placid, no limit hold’em games.
There were many $1/2 no limit hold’em games from which to
chose. Some were extremely calm —with six or so short-stacked
players having less than $100—and playing very passively. Other
tables seemed wild, with pre-flop raises typically to $20 or $25.
I sat into one of those games, hoping to hit a big hand and take
down a large pot. Unfortunately, though I road the roller coaster,
I never managed to hit a big hand at the right time, losing $200
in the process—alas.
There was no stud, but there was modest $3 - $6 limit hold’em
action. The two or three tables seemed relatively sedate. The
shift supervisor said they were planning on spreading a pink chip
$7.50/$15.00 games in the near future. I’d call first if you’re
looking for that game, though.
The rake is standard for Ohio, 10% up to a $6 maximum (with
an additional $1 drop at $20 for the bad beat and other promotions). The higher stakes games have a time charge of $8 a half
hour. That includes the $10/25 no limit hold’em game that runs,
usually, on the weekends.
In other regards, this is a great room, with table-side food
and beverage service, beautiful surroundings, and a staff that
seemed at least competent. The buffet was terrific—as I’ve come
to expect from Caesar’s properties. Comps are $.50 an hour for
the $3/6 limit hold’em, and $1 for the other games.
This being an urban casino, the vast majority of casino visitors
are from the immediate area. The casino does not yet have its
own hotel, relying on area hotels to serve its out of town guests.
Rooms in the hotel properties that are in partnership with the
casino were extremely expensive—at $250+. This was disappointing for a mid-week rate. My daughter and I ended up staying
about 20 minutes away at a $69 Super8 (with a free breakfast).
Overall, I was impressed with this casino—though I would be
much more likely to come back if there was a reasonably priced
room on or near the premises. As it was, I liked the game selection—and I was pleasantly intrigued by the PLO action.
Horseshoe Cleveland, www.horseshoecleveland.com
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Ashley Adams is the author of Winning 7-Card Stud and
Winning No Limit Low Limit Hold’em. He hosts the
radio show House of Cards, broadcast Mondays at
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Internet at www.houseofcardsradio.com.
Contact Ashley at [email protected].
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Twists and Turns Continue for
ultimately
tied up by
New Jersey
regulators in a
manner that made it impossible for PokerStars to meet
the deadline as stipulated
in the sale/purchase agreement.
The ACC was seemingly better advised than
PokerStars on the terms of
the agreement than expertly
advised in the development
of the business terms of the
agreement. The conditional
deal allowed the ACC to
terminate the negotiations
if final agreement were not
reached by a date certain—
April 26, 2013. By that
time, Stars had invested
and stood to lose at least 11
million dollars it had put
into the proposed venture.
On the designated termination date of April 26, as
permitted in the terms of
the contract, the ACC the
said farewell to the deal
that had been inked. During
the colder days of winter,
online poker legislation had
passed and had become law
in New Jersey. In the early
months of 2013 the ACC’s
earnings improved. After
giving notice of termination to PokerStars’, ACC’s
COO, Michael Frawley
took to a public podium to
announce the Company’s
decision to walk away from
the deal and up the price for
the sale of the property.
PokerStars Moves to
Quash ACC Possible
Efforts to Sell Fast to
Others
PokerStars cried foul and
asserted bad faith dealings
on the part of the ACC.
Stars turned to Attorney
Wayne Positan to lead the
way in a bid to obtain a
Temporary Restraining
Order that would prevent
the ACC from making a
fast sale to others while
the Court considered the
dispute. PokerStars was
successful in obtaining the
TRO but the victory was
short-lived.
On May 7, Attorney
Eisenstein wrote to his
inquiring friends on
BARGE, a popular internet
poker forum site, “Since
it’s now on record and no
longer a secret I can report
that we just had argument
this afternoon on whether to
dissolve the TRO I got yesterday for PokerStars and
the Judge put a decision on
the record to continue the
restraints without modification and to hold a hearing
next week on an injunction.” His last line was the
understatement of the week.
He said, “Busy times.”
Ten days later, the New
Jersey Superior Court Judge
who granted the TRO had
a change of heart. Judge
Raymond Batten lifted the
TRO he had previously
granted to PokerStars. Thus,
Eisenstein’s law partner
Positan was left to sing the
blues in the jurist’s courtroom. According to lawyers
generally familiar with the
case, who also understand
the usual limitations of a
TRO, the outcome was not
so surprising
The Beat Goes On
Was PokerStars misled or
did the Company lull itself
into believing the termination date was of no consequence. The consensus
of lawyers queried for this
article is that this question
is likely to be debated in a
long and mutually bruising
litigation.
Despite PokerStars open
indignation over the conduct of the ACC in this
matter, the legal papers
that made their way out
beyond the courthouse
have several lawyers across
the country shaking their
heads over the contract
language that passed muster with PokerStars’ law-
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r PokerStars and Atlantic Club Casino and Hotel
yers. The consensus is that
PokerStars, no matter how
it proceeds from here, has
put itself in quite a pickle.
Old News or
Revelations:
Isai Scheinberg is
Still Involved With
PokerStars
Even more curious are the
pleadings that were put
before Judge Batten, in
which ACC’s chief financial officer, Eric Matejevich
references substantive
discussions of the proposed sale directly with
Isai Scheinberg after the
date by which he was to
give up a leadership role
in PokerStars—both at
the beginning and at the
height of turmoil near the
end of the tattered negotiations. The ACC suggests,
implicitly that Scheinberg
continues to have leadership responsibility in the
Company.
WSOP Circuit at Harrahs
Philadelphia
the rail. He remained near
the bottom of the pack,
but managed to stay alive.
Assante however, lost traction after doubling a few of
the shorter stacks and was
ultimately eliminated by
Ken Silberstein in 5th place
($30,516)
It appeared that
Silbertein, who was the
runner-up in last year’s
Main Event at Harrah’s
Philadelphia, would get
the win that eluded him in
2012. Silberstein held over
70% of the chips in play
with just Clinkscales and
Mike Jukich separating him
from redemption.
Clinkscales faced an
8-1 deficit vs. Silberstein,
but was he was undaunted. In one of the most
critical hands of the
night, Silberstein called
Clinkscales’ all-in for
about 680,000 in chips.
Silberstein’s A-3 was
trumped by Clinkscales’
A-Q. The board ran out
clean for Clinkscales, putting him well in contention.
Silberstein would also double up Jukich before being
eliminated in a disappointing 3rd place ($54,614).
It was down to Jukich
and Clinkscales heads up
with Jukich holding a slight
chip lead vs. Clinkscales.
The two battled it out for
nearly three hours heads
up. Clinkscales slowly built
up a 2-1 lead over Jukich
before the final hand of the
night saw both players all-in
with Clinkscales’ pocket 7’s
vs. the K-J of Jukich. The
final board of the night was
no help to Jukich, giving
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This raises questions
as to whether PokerStars
has violated its settlement
agreement with respect to
Scheinberg’s present role
in the Company. One lawyer says, “The Company’s
founder may have overplayed his hand.’ Another
summed up the more prevalent view: “Isai believes
in his innocence and in his
company—completely.”
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CONNORS’ CORNER
By BARBARA CONNORS
It happens to the best of us. All poker players
are guilty of overplaying hands sometimes.
For whatever reason — because we think a particular hand is
“lucky,” or because we’re just so impressed with how great it
looks at first glance — we enter the pot with much more confidence than the hand actually warrants. Like bringing a knife
to a gunfight, we’re ill-equipped for the battle ahead, but we
don’t realize the error until it’s too late.
The most chronically overplayed hands generally fall into
one of these categories:
• Ace-X. Where the “X” in question is not a king. Yes,
there is a case to be made that A-K is among the most overplayed hands in hold’em. And more than a few tournament
hotshots have been forced into an early exit after getting
too shove-happy with A-K. Even so, this is still one of the
best starting hands in hold’em, and it’s difficult to go too far
wrong being aggressive with Big Slick.
But when you start talking about A-Q or A-J, let alone A-10
or even smaller, that’s another story. Yes, being suited helps,
especially for baby aces, and of course these hands can be
very profitable in the right situation. Key words being in the
right situation. Late position. Short-handed pots (unless you
have a draw). Good solid read on your opponent. No these
aren’t hard-and-fast rules, almost nothing in poker ever is,
but too many players will look at ace-anything and think
they’ve struck gold.
There is something truly mesmerizing about the ace. The
most powerful card in the deck, its mere presence in our
hand inspires an instant feeling of superiority. But when
that ace in our hand is paired with an inferior kicker, the
only question is how much we’re going to lose, how fast.
Truly skilled players can get away from top pair, second-best
kicker with only a minimal amount of damage. Most players
go broke with it.
That’s not to say you should look for monsters under the
bed every time you play A-Q or lower. But these hands are
overplayed precisely because they’re much more vulnerable
than they first seem. The lower your kicker, the greater your
likelihood of being dominated, in which case pairing your ace
is a marvelous stroke of luck — for your opponent.
• Paint. Otherwise known as Broadway cards. This is really
just an extension of the last category because the bottomline problem is the same: the danger of being dominated.
Whether it’s K-Q, K-J, Q-J, or J-10 it still comes down to the
fact that these cards look awful purty when you first peek
down at them, but flopping a pair with these hands is problematic at best. Of course with a hand like this you’re really
hoping to flop Broadway, or at least a draw. Or two pair, or
maybe a flush draw if you’re sooted. But more often than not
if you hit the flop at all it’s going to be one pair. With a good,
but still vulnerable, kicker. The perfect recipe for overplaying.
• Pocket Pairs. Pocket jacks and lower are easy to overplay because it’s just so easy for an overcard to fall. Then you
don’t know where you’re at. When you hold pocket jacks an
overcard will flop 57 percent of the time; with pocket eights
that percentage shoots up to almost 97 percent. If you shove
preflop with a medium-to-small pair you’re basically hoping
for a coinflip but could very well be dominated. Any way you
slice it these are very tricky hands to play, yet some players
approach any pocket pair as if it were a pair of bullets.
What all these hands have in common is that they can look
very enticing before the flop — making it far too easy to fall
in love, and far too difficult to let the hand go when you know
deep down you should.
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LET’S SEE WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
WSOP Champions 2012 WSOP
From 1970 to 2012 HIGHLIGHTS
Johnny
Moss
Greg
Merson
Perhaps the best rule of
thumb for the WSOP is that
the prize pools have kept
going up while the average
ages of the main event winners have steadily declined.
When Moss took down the
first event (with only seven
players) he was 63, and no
one even knows how much
he won (or what his final
hole cards were). The second year the field slipped
to six players, Moss won
again at age 64 with pocket
6s and collected $30,000.
In 2009 Joe Cada became
the youngest champion ever
at age 21, and pocketed
$8,574,649.
Here is the data for the
champions that followed:
In 1972 the winner was
Thomas “Amarillo Slim”
Preston. There were eight
entrants, his winning cards
were K J, and he took
home $80,000.
Walter “Puggy”
Pearson followed in 1973.
There were 13 entrants, he
won with A♠ 7♠ and won
$130,000.
$192,008,868 set the year
before. It was, incidentally,
the eighth year in a row
that the prize pool was well
above the $100 million
mark.
The big jump over last
year was of course due to
the $1 million buy-in for
the Big One for One Drop,
a non-profit organization dedicated to helping
people worldwide gain
access to clean water.
(Continued on page WSOP4)
One Drop winner,
Antonio
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The Youngest Champ,
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By Max Shapiro
The World Series of Poker
has seen countless changes
since its launch in 1970. The
very first WSOP was not
even a freeze-out event, but
a contest with starting and
stopping set times, and the
“best player” was voted by
secret ballot. Poker legend
holds that all the players
voted for themselves, Benny
Binion then took a vote for
the second-best player, and
Johnny “The Grand Old
Man of Poker” Moss was
the winner.
By Max Shapiro
Last year marked the
42nd anniversary of the
World Series of Poker, by
far the longest-running,
richest, and most prominent
gaming event on earth. The
turnout of 74,766 players
was just the second-highest
of all time, but numerous
other records were set. No
doubt the most striking
was the total prize pool of
$222,035,192, which totally
eclipsed the prior record of
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Those Who Finished Second In the WSOP Championship
By Max Shapiro
One of the best-known
quotes is: “Nobody remembers who came in second.”
Well, many players have
finished second in the main
event during all the years of
the World Series of Poker.
Some of them are well
known and remembered,
and some are not. Here is
a list of the championship
runners-up and information
about them.
1970
There were only seven
players this first year, and
Johnny “The Grand Old
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by vote, not by freeze-out,
so there was no second
place.
1971
Moss won again, and the
runner-up was Walter
“Puggy” Pearson.
Moss held pocket 6s, but
Pearson’s final hand is
unknown. Pearson, a true
pioneer in poker, was unmistakable with his ever-present
cigar and colorful costumes,
and is credited with devising the freeze-out format for
poker tournaments. A pool
hustler and scratch golfer,
Pearson won the WSOP
main event in 1973. He was
born in Tennessee in 1929
and died in 2006. His last
years of poker were spent
largely playing $20-$40
Omaha high-low.
1972
Pearson came in second
again, this time against
Thomas “Amarillo Slim”
Preston, holding pocket 6s
against Slim’s K♥-J♥
1973
This year the tables were
turned as Pearson won and
Puggy Pearson
WSOP Champions 1970-2012
Moss, now 67, won for
the third time in 1974 holding 3♥ 3♠. The field kept
inching up. There were now
16 players and he got the
entire $160,000 prize pool.
There were 21 players
and a $210,000 pay-out
when Brian “Sailor”
Roberts won in 1975 holding J♠ J♥.
Doyle “Texas Dolly”
Brunson (who got his
colorful nickname when
Jimmy Snyder mispronounced his name) stepped
up and won in 1976 and
1977, both years holding a
10-2. Brunson would go on
to become the first player
to chalk up $1 million in
career earnings, eventually
winning10 bracelets and
more than $6 million in 50
years of tournament play.
Bobby “The Owl”
Baldwin, later to become
a casino executive, won
in 1978 holding Q♦ Q♣.
This time there were 42
players with a total prize
pool of $420,000, and it
was the first year when
it was not winner take
all. Baldwin’s share was
$210,000.
Hal Fowler became the
first non-professional to
win the championship in
1979, and he did it by beating Bobby “The Wizard”
Hoff, regarded as one of
the best no-limit players
of his time. On the final
hand, Fowler held just 7♠
6♦ against Hoff’s pocket
aces. He flopped a gut-shot
straight draw, hit it on the
turn, and won $270,000. By
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2012 WSOP Highlights
Phil Hellmuth
Each of the participants
donated $111,111 of their
tournament buy-ins to
this philanthropic cause.
This historic event drew
a field of 48 players, a
mixture of poker pros and
wealthy businessmen. The
winner, poker pro and
former professional magician Antonio Esfandiari,
pocketed an astonishing
$18,346,673, making him
the all-time tournament
leader with about $23.5
career winnings. Some
four other players – Sam
Trickett, Phil Ivey, Erik
Seidel and Phil Hellmuth –
were all in the $17 million
range at the time.
So “One Drop” not
only created the biggest
total prize pool in WSOP
history, it also vaulted
Esfandiari into the numberone spot in tournament
career earnings, thus easily making this event the
top highlight of the 2012
WSOP.
Esfandiari was born
in Iran with the name
Amir, later changing it to
Antonio, and moved with
his family to San Jose,
California when he was
nine.. He has three WSOP
bracelets and two World
Poker Tour titles. His two
prior biggest wins were
both for his WPT championship wins: $1.399 million in 2004 at Commerce
Casino’s L.A. Poker
Classic, and $870,124 in
2010 at the Doyle Brunson
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Classic;
Another major highlight
of the 2012 WSOP was
Phil Hellmuth winning his
12th gold bracelet, the only
player to achieve this milestone as he broke his own
record for most victories.
The win was also especially gratifying for Hellmuth
because in 2011 he missed
three opportunities, finishing in second place in three
events. He won number 12
by capturing a $2,500 razz
event. All his other bracelets have been in hold’em.
At the WSOP last year,
Hellmuth had a total of six
cashes, including a fourth
in the “One-Drop” competition, which alone was
worth $2.645 million.
Phil Ivey was another
headline-maker. In 2011
he boycotted the WSOP,
declining to play because
of the Full Tilt scandal,
proclaiming it would be
unfair for him to play
while others, who suffered
economic harm, could not.
Last year he returned with
a vengeance, cashing seven
Susie Isaacs
times for $576,052. His
cashes included an astonishing five final tables over
13 days, the most noteworthy two-week run in
WSOP history. Even more
impressive was the fact
that each of the final tables
were in different games:
seven-card stud high-low,
pot limit hold’em, Omaha
high-low, HORSE, and
mixed hold’em.
Women made news for
what they did and didn’t
accomplish last year. With
two ladies remaining when
the main event got down
to 12 players, it seemed
fairly certain that a female
would make the final table
for the second time. But
Elisabeth Hille busted out
in 11th place and Gaelle
Baumann could only make
it to 10th, leaving Barbara
Enright, who ended fifth
in 1995, the only woman to
ever final the main event.
Her finish makes Baumann
the fourth woman to get
to 10th place, the others being Barbara Gold,
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Striking a more positive
note was Vanessa Selbst,
who won her second bracelet
for taking down a $2,500
six-max 10-game mixed
event. It was the first time
since 2008 that a woman had
won an open event when
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in first in $1,500 pot-limit
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hold’em event. In all, female
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showing last year, appearing at nine final tables, with
Allyn Jaffrey Shulman winning the $1,000 Seniors nolimit championship.
Michael Mizrachi also
scored very big, claiming
his third bracelet by capturing the $50,000 Poker
Players Championship
which paid $1.451 million.
It was the second time he
won this event, making him
the only repeat winner of
the Chip Reese Memorial
Trophy. It was the fifth
time “The Grinder” had
cashed in for over a million
dollars, moving his career
earnings to $13.6 million.
Andy Bloch deserves
some applause. One of the
best-known players over
two decades, he had never
won a WSOP event, but
finally captured his first
win in seven-card stud.
And finally, last but
certainly not least, there’s
Greg Merson. Coming
into this year, his most
notable achievement had
been a 639th–place finish
in the 2009 WSOP main
event that paid $21,365.
Then, in the 2011 WSOP
he racked up cashes of
$16,850 for 21st in the
$3,000 no-limit six-handed
event; $70,280 for fifth in
the $2,500 no-limit fourhanded contest; $1,136,197
for winning the $10,000
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now the field had grown to
54 players.
Now coming on stage
was Stu Ungar, widely
regarded as the greatest nolimit and gin rummy player
of all time. Ungar had two
nicknames, “Stuey” and
“The Kid,” because he was
only 27 when he won his
first of three championships in 1980. There were
73 entrants, he held 5♠
4♠, and his win was worth
$385,000.
Stuey made it two in a
row in 1981. There were 75
players, he held A♥ Q♥ and
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WSOP Champions 1970-2012
orable because earlier in the
tournament he was down to
one chip, which led to the
familiar poker saying, “A
chip and a chair.”
Tom McEvoy set a
record when he became the
first champion to win his
buy-in through a satellite.
There were 108 players
in 1983, his win came to
$540,000, and his winning
hand was Q♦ Q♠.
In 1986, with a field of
132, “Gentleman” Jack
Keller won with 10♥
10♠. His prize money was
$660,000.
Bill Smith was the winner in 1985, beating a field
of 140. His winning hand
was 3♠ 3♥ and his prize
was $700,000.
In 1986 Berry Johnston
won with A♠ 10♥. There
were 141 entrants. His
share was $570,000.
Johnny Chan
Huck Seed
Johnny “Orient
Express” Chan now
arrived and won the next
two years. In 1987 he won
$625,000 in a 152-player
field holding A♠ 9♣,
repeating next year and
winning $700,000 in a field
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The year 1989 brought
onstage Phil “The Poker
Brat” Hellmuth, who
would become the reigning
bracelet-winner with 13 to
date. He scored his championship win holding 9♠ 9♣.
The field was 178, his payout $755,000.
Mansour Matloubi took
home $895,000 in 1990
with 6♥ 6♠. There were 194
entrants.
From 1991 through 1999
there were a series of $1
million pay-outs for first
place. Brad Daugherty
was the first to achieve this
milestone when he won
with K♠ J♠, competing in a
field of 215.
Next millionaire was
Hamid Dastmalchi. There
were 201 players, and his
winning hand was 8♥ 4♣.
In 1993 Jim Bechtel
scored with J♣ 6♥.The field
was 220.
Russ Hamilton triumphed with K♠ 8♥ in
1994 when there were 268
players.
Dan “Action Dan”
Harrington beat a field of
273 in 1995 holding 9♦ 8♦.
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Huck Seed was the next
to win $1 million. He held
9♦ 8♦ and the field had
inched up to 295.
The year 1997 saw the
triumphant return of Stu
Ungar. Holding A♥ 4♣ as
his final cards, he became
the only player ever to win
three freeze-out championships (one of Moss’ three
victories came by vote).
Scotty Nguyen
The field was 350 in 1998
when Scotty “The Train”
Nguyen, also called “The
Prince of Poker,” beat a field
of 350. His hole cards were
J♦ 9♣.
Englishman Noel
Furlong was the winner in
1999. He held 5♣ 5♦, The
field was 393.
In 2000, Chris “Jesus”
Ferguson put his famous
bad beat on T.J. Cloutier,
catching a 9 to his A♠ 9♣
and outdrawing Cloutier’s
A Q. By now the number of
players had grown to 512.
In 2001, when Carlos “El
Matador” Mortensen won
with K♣ Q♣, the field had
grown to 613, and now the
championship pay-out had
increased to $1.5 million.
First place jumped to $2
million and the number of
players had grown to 631
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when Robert Varkonyi
won with Q♦ 10♠ in 2002.
The WSOP explosion
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WSOP Champions
Greg Raymer
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field that year was 839 and
his win amounted to $2.5
million.
By the following year
the number of entrants had
zoomed to 2,576 and Greg
“Fossilman” Raymer collected $5 million. His hole
cards were 8♠ 8♦.
The entrants more than
doubled the next year, to
5,619, when Joe Hachem
collected $7.5 million, winning with 7♣ 3♠.
Jamie Gold’s prize was
a current record of $12 million in 2006 when there
were 8,773 players. He held
Q♠ 9♣.
Peter Eastgate
Jamie Gold
Jerry “The Shadow”
Yang won with 8♦ 8♣
in 2007. His share was
$8,250,000 and there were
6,358 players.
In 2008 Peter “Isser”
Eastgate held A♦ 5♠ when
he won $9,152,416. There
were 6,844 players.
Joe Cada won in 2009.
He held 9♦ 9♣, there were
6, 494 entrants and his prize
was $8,574,649.
Jonathan Duhamel
was the champion in 2010.
There were 7,319 players,
he won $8,944,310 and his
winning cards were A♠ 2♣.
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Second
Moss finished second, holding K♥ J♠ to Pearson’s
A♠ 7♠. Moss was widely
considered to be the best
poker player of his day,
winning three of the first
WSOP events along with
numerous other cashes. He
is famous for his marathon
match with Nick “The
Greek” Dandalos, supposedly winning $4 million,
though there is doubt now
that the match ever did take
place. Moss was born in
Texas in 1907 and died in
1995. He was the only living player to enter the Poker
Hall of Fame when there
were seven initial inductees
in 1979.
1974
Finishing second with
A♣ 2♣ was Crandell
Addington as Moss racked
up a third win with 3♥ 3♠.
Addington, born 1938 in
Texas, is an entrepreneur
and self-made millionaire
who has played poker
mainly for recreation. He is
known as “Dandy” because
he is always well dressed.
He was a regular player
in the Texas poker circuit
in the 1960s. He made the
final table of the WSOP
main event almost every
year from 1972 to 1979 and
holds the record of seven
for the most final table
appearances. Inducted into
the Poker Hall of Fame in
2005, he is no longer an
active poker player.
1975
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Bob Hooks took second
with J♣ 9♣ against Brian
“Sailor“ Roberts’ J♠ J♥.
Hooks, now in his 80s, was
a successful Texas businessman who began playing poker in the early days
and was in the very first
WSOP event. A world-class
hold’em enthusiast, he considers money management
to be his strongest poker
asset.
1976
And, finally,a last year’s
first-place winner was Greg
Merson who held K♦ 5♦
and collected $8,531,853 by
outlasting 6,598 players.
Jesse Alto had A♠ J♦ when
he was beaten by Doyle
Brunson’s famous 10♠ 2♠,
a hand that was named after
him when he won with 10-2
again the following year.
Alto (1927-1998) was best
known for his many main
event final table finishes,
five in all. He cashed in
many events but never won
a bracelet.
1977
Doyle’s victim this year
was Gary “Bones”
Berland, who lost with
8♥ 5♣. Berland was born
in Gardena, California and
moved with his family to
Las Vegas in 1968. After
two years of college he left
to become a full-time poker
pro, also working as a poker
dealer in his early years.
He won bracelets twice in
1978, for seven-card stud
and seven-card razz, and
totaled five WSOP wins in
stud and razz. He finished
third in the WSOP main
event in 1986 and died not
long after, supposedly of a
rare blood disorder.
1978
Crandell Addington came
in second a second time
when his pocket 9s couldn’t
catch Bobby Baldwin’s
pocket ladies.
1979
Bobby Hoff had pocket
aces on the final hand, but
finished second when Hal
Fowler, starting with only
7♠ 6♦, turned a straight.
After graduating from college in Texas on an athletic
scholarship, Hoff worked as
a poker dealer in Las Vegas
and began playing the
game. He later began playing blackjack, playing with
a team for five years, but
had to return to poker after
most of the casinos banned
him. His main event match
lasted over 10 hours. When
he lost to amateur Hal
Fowler, future attendance
increased as players realized
that anybody could win. He
also finished in the money
of the main event in five
succeeding years. In 2010
he was hospitalized with a
stroke, and now lives in Los
Angeles.
1980
This year Doyle Brunson
had to settle for second
when his A♥ 7♠ was outdrawn by Stu “The Kid”
Ungar’s 5♠ 4♠. “TexDolly,”
born in 1933, has been
playing professionally for
over 50 years. He holds 10
bracelets, including two
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1981
Perry Green finished
second with 10♣ 9♦ as
Ungar racked up his second
straight victory holding A♥
Q♥. Green, born in 1936, is
an Alaskan fur trader who
began playing in the WSOP
in the 70s and has three
bracelets and 23 WSOP
cashes. He has been leading
the fight to get poker legalized in Alaska.
1982
It was a million-dollar pot,
the largest to date in WSOP
history, when Dewey
Tomko busted out second
against Jack “Treetop”
Strauss. Tomko held A♦ 4♦
against Strauss’ A♥ 10♠.
He took the lead when a
4 flopped, but lost when
a 10 hit the river. Tomko,
a former kindergarten
teacher, was born in 1946
in Pennsylvania and learned
poker in pool halls. He has
three bracelets, has played
in every main event since
1974, currently the longest
streak, has nearly $5 million in tournament wins and
is an inductee in the Poker
Hall of Fame. Currently he
plays mostly cash games.
1983
Rod Peate finished second
with K♦ J♦ against Tom
Mcvoy’s Q♦ Q♠. Peat,,
from Portland, Oregon,
later cashed four times in
the main event, and in 1987
won a bracelet for sevencard stud. He still continues
to play tournaments, his
most recent cash being
a third in the L.A. Poker
Classic last year.
1984
Byron “Cowboy” Wolford
held 6♥ 4♥ and couldn’t
catch Jack Keller’s 10♥
10♠. Wolford (1930-2003)
was a professional poker
player and accomplished
rodeo rider who set the alltime speed record for calf
roping at Madison Square
Garden in the 1950s. He
had nine WSOP cashes
including a win in $5,000
limit hold’em, with a career
total of just over $1 million. He also authored a
book, Cowboys, Gamblers
& Hustlers—The True
Adventures of a Rodeo
Champion & Poker Legend.
1985
T.J. Cloutier ended second
when his A♦ 3♣ lost to Bill
Smith’s 3♠ 3♥. Cloutier,
born in 1939, played
football for the Canadian
Football League until an
injury ended his career.
Moving to Texas, he learned
poker while working on oil
rigs and soon turned pro. He
specializes in tournament
play and is the only one to
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1986
Holding A♦ 8♦, Mike
Hart finished second
to Berry Johnston’s A♠
10♥. Hart (also known
as Mike Harthcock) is a
veteran poker player from
California with four bracelets, two of them in sevencard razz. He has career
winnings of about $1.6 million, more than half from
WSOP cashes.
Eric Seidel
1987
Winning the first of two
back-to-back championships, Johnny “The Orient
Express” left Frank
Henderson in second
place when his A♠ 9♣ outdrew Henderson’s 4♦ 4♣.
Henderson is a professional
player from Houston. He
has numerous WSOP final
tables to his credit and won
a pot-limit Omaha event in
1989. His career winnings
exceed $1.5 million, mostly
from his 36 WSOP cashes.
1988
Erik Seidel, playing in his
first major tournament, was
Chan’s next victim: Once
again the better hand lost:
Seidel had Q♣ 7♥ to J♣
9♣ for Chan. Seidel, born
in 1959 in New York and
now living in Las Vegas,
was a professional backgammon player before turning to poker. He has eight
bracelets as well as a World
Poker Tour title along with
career cashes of over $17
million.
1989
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have won bracelets in every
form of Omaha limit, potlimit and high-low. Cloutier,
who also instructs poker,
has seven bracelets and total
wins of about $10 million.
He is also a high-stakes
craps player.
Chan’s run ended when
he finished second to Phil
“Poker Brat” Hellmuth,
holding A♠ 7♠ to the Brat’s
pocket 9s. Chan, born in
China in 1957, later moved
with his family to Texas,
where they owned restaurants. He originally planned
to join the business, but
when he was 21 moved to
Vegas to become a professional gambler. Chan, who
likes to keep a “lucky”
orange on the table in front
Phil Hellmuth
Sam Farha
the WSOP Championship
of him, was the first player
to win 10 bracelets. His
career earnings exceed $8.6
million.
1990
David Williams
Steve Dannenmann
1995
Howard Goldfarb finished
second to Dan Harrington
with the best hand going
in, A♥ 7♣ against 9♦ 8.
Goldfarb is a Canadian
recreational poker player
who was a 33-year-old land
developer when he entered
his first tournament in 1993.
His only other cash was
a 22nd in the 1994 main
event.
1991
1996
Don Holt finished behind
Brad Daugherty when his
7♥ 3♥ couldn’t overtake
K♠ J♠. Holt began playing at the WSOP in the
1980s. He won a bracelet
in 1989 in seven-card stud,
defeating David Sklansky.
That same year he had his
other first place finish, also
in seven-stud, at Amarillo
Slim’s Super Bowl of
Poker.
Bruce Van Horn finished
behind Huck Seed when
his K♣ 8♣ was overtaken
by Seed’s 9♦ 8♦. Dr. Van
Horn is a pathologist from
Oklahoma with considerable tournament success. He
has 13 WSOP cashes and
total winnings of $900,293.
1997
1993
John Strzemp was a big
favorite with A♠ 8♣ to Stu
Ungar’s A♥ 4♣ but lost.
Besides playing poker,
Strzemp has served as an
executive with various Las
Vegas casinos. Currently
he is executive vice president and chief administrative officer with Wynn
Resorts. His cashes are over
$900,000. His son is also a
player who finished third in
a $1,500 no-limit event in
2008.
Glenn Cozen took second,
thanks to a gift from John
Bonetti. With three players
left, Cozen had only a few
chips and was on the verge
of extinction. Then Bonetti
got involved with Jim
Bechtel, went all in with top
two and lost to Bechtel’s
set. Many consider it the
worst blunder in WSOP history, but Bonetti defended
his move, saying he always
played to win, not come in
second. A beat later Cozen
went out with 7♠ 4♦ to
Bechtel’s J♣ 6♥. A builder
of medical facilities, Cozen
continues to play tournaments.
Sotty Nguyen became
champion with a drawout when his J♦ 9♣ beat
Kevin McBride’s Q♥ 10♥.
On the river there was a
full house on board when
Nguyen issued his famous
taunt, “You call and it’s
gonna be all over baby.”
McBride did, playing the
board, only to have Nguyen
turn up a bigger full house.
McBride, from Florida, has
seven WSOP cashes and a
total of $776,462 in tournament pay-outs. He also has
wins in the Florida State
Poker Championship and
Carnivale of Poker.
1994
1999
Tom Jacobs finished second, his J♦ 7♠ losing to
Hamid Dastmalchi’s 8♥
4♣. Jacobs, who lived in
Arizona and had a bracelet
in $3,000 limit hold’em,
died in 2007, at age 61. He
made 10 final tables with
career winnings of more
than $1 million.
Tuan Lam
8♥. Vincent, a Florida
resident, had $722,612 in
cashes from 1991 to 1997,
$588,000 of it from his
second-place finish.
Hans “Tuna” Lund was
the runner-up to Mansour
Matloubi with 4♦ 4♣
against 6♥ 6♠. Lund (19502009) was a professional
who began playing tournaments in 1977. The next
year he won a bracelet in
$1,500 no-limit and later
won a second bracelet in
ace-to-five draw. His career
earnings came to $2.9 million.
1992
Paul Wasicka
Hugh Vincent was runner-up to Russ Hamilton
with 8♣ 5♥ against K♠
1998
Alan Goehring had the
best of it with 6♥ 6♣ but
lost to Noel Furlong’s 5♣
June 3, 2013
5♦. Goehring, born in 1957,
is a retired junk bond dealer
and analyst who became
a poker pro at age 37. His
second-place finish, along
with several other runner-up
performances, earned him a
reputation as someone who
could not win the big one.
But he shed this image by
winning a World Poker Tour
$25,000 championship. In
2005 he won another WPT
championship at the L.A.
Poker Classic, taking home
a WPT record $2,391,550.
His total cashes are $5.2
million.
2000
T.J. Cloutier had his second second when his A♦
Q♣ was beaten by Chris
Ferguson’s A♠ 9♣.
2001
Dewey Tomko suffered a
really bad beat when his A♠
A♥ was cracked by Juan
Carlos Mortensen’s K♣
Q♣. This was the former
kindergarten teacher’s second runner-up in the main
event.
2002
Finally the best hand won
as Julian Gardner’s J♣
8♣ was beaten by the
Q♦ 10♠ held by Robert
Varkonyi. Gardner, born
1978, is a British professional poker player following in the footsteps of his
father. He began playing in
local casinos at age 15 and
had won 20 tournaments
by age 20. When he finished second at the WSOP
main event, he became
the youngest player ever
to cash for $1 million. He
also finished in the money
at the main event the next
two years, making him
the only player to do so
those three years. He plays
mostly European events,
and his total cashes come to
$2,391,550.
2003
In the match that changed
poker, Sam Farha with
J♥ 10♦ lost to Chris
Moneymaker’s 5♦ 4♠.
Farha, born in 1959 in
Lebanon, emigrated to the
U.S. when the Lebanese
civil war broke out. He
earned a degree in business
administration, but after
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winning several thousand
dollars in his first poker
game, decided to turn pro.
Farha has three bracelets,
all in Omaha events, including the $10,000 high-low
championship tourney in
2010. His total tournament
wins amount to $2,881,314,
almost all of it from his 10
WSOP cashes.
2004
David Williams finished
second this year. He had
A♥ 4♠ and lost to Greg
Raymer’s 8♠ 8♦. He is a
professional who was born
in Texas in 1980, He won
his seat via an online site
and cashed for $3.5 million.
He also has a second in a
WPT championship event,
along with a bracelet in seven-card stud and total cashes of $8,424,288. His mother, Shirley Williams, often
attends his tournaments, and
in 2006 outlasted him in the
WSOP main event.
2005
Steve Dannenmann took
second with A♦ 3 ♣ to
7♣ 3♠ for Joe Hachem.
Dannenmann, born in
Maryland in 1966, is a CPA
and financial adviser owning his own business who
declined to switch occupations and turn pro after winning $4,250,000 for second
(which he split 50/50 with
a friend who helped back
him). Mostly a home game
player, this was his first
tournament cash. His total
tournament winnings now
are $4,765,960..
2006
Jamie Gold, holding Q♠
9♣, beat Paul Wasicka’s
10♥ 10♠ to score a
record $12 million victory. Wasicka’s share came
to just over $6 million.
Wasicka, a pro born in
Texas, also won the 2007
NBC National HeadsUp Poker Championship.
His total wins, mainly
from WSOP cashes, are
$7,844,998.
2007
Tuan Lam was runner-up
when his A♦ Q♦ lost to
Jerry Yang’s 8♦ 8♣. Lam
was born in Vietnam in
1966 and immigrated to
Canada when he was 19.
Prior to his big secondplace cash of $4,840,881, he
had only a 46th in a shootout event in 2006 and a
76th in a no-limit contest in
2005 at the WSOP. Nothing
before or since. Not much
is known about him except
that he is married with two
children in Toronto.
2008
Ivan Demidov lost with
4♥ 2♥ to Peter Eastgate’s
A♦ 5♠. Demidov, a pro
from Moscow, Russia, got
$5,809,505 for second.
The same year he finished
third in the WSOP Europe
main event, making him
the first to reach the main
final tables of both events.
His total cashes amount
to $6,777,518. He is the
highest-ranking member of
the WSOP All-Time Money
List with no bracelet.
John Racener settled for
second for $5,545,955,
holding. Q♦ J♦ to
Johnathan Duhamel’s A♠
J♥. Racener is a pro from
Florida with five other
WSOP final tables and
one WPT final. He also
won a Circuit event in
Atlantic City. Total cashes:
$7,479,365.
2011
The runner-up was Martin
Staszko with 10♣ 7♣
against Pius Heinz’ A♠
K♣. Staszko was born in
Czechoslovakia in 1976. He
was working as a foreman
in an auto plant, putting in
long hours playing online
and doing so well he decided to turn pro. An accomplished chess player, he
credited the game for giving
him the mental discipline
needed for poker. Staszko
earned $5,433,086 for his
second place, and has just
slightly more in overall
tournament cashes.
Current champion Greg
Merson’s K♦ 5♦ left Jesse
Sylvia, holding Q♠ J♠,
in second place. It paid
$5,295,249. Sylvia, from
Massachusetts, began playing poker while attending
college and decided to turn
pro after winning more than
$100,000 in a major online
tournament. He has three
other small WSOP cashes,
with total earnings of $5.4
million.
June 3, 2013
Darvin Moon
2010
2012
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Ivan Demidov
2009
Darvin Moon came second with Q♦ J♦ to Joe
Cada’s 9♦ 9♣. Moon, from
Maryland, is an amateur
player who owns a small
logging company with other
family members. He earned
his seat by winning a $130
satellite at a West Virginia
casino. It was his first
WSOP event and he cashed
for $5.182,601. His secondbiggest cash was $3,852 for
32nd at a Heartland Poker
Tour main event.
John Racener
Martin Staszko
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1. Rex Clinkscales . . . . $121,095
2. Michael Jukich . . . . . $74,863
3. Kenneth Silberstein .$54,614
4. Andrew Rudnik . . . . $40,509
5. Michael Assante . . . . $30,516
6. Leonardo Palermo . . $23,340
7. Anthony Natale . . . . . $18,112
8. Jonas Wexler . . . . . . . $14,258
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Florida: Poker Destination
Plus Family Fun
By Donna Blevins, Poker MindSet Coach
Florida is more than great weather, white sandy
beaches and mega resorts. Florida is now a destination for poker as well as your family vacation.
Think of how much better your poker will be,
knowing your family is with you and having incredible adventures
while you’re at the table. They’ll be happy to hear about you playing poker, because they got to do something that was fun for them.
To paraphrase Zig Ziglar: “You can get anything you want in life
if you help others get what they want.”
That’s actually how I got into the game.
When my husband, Gregory, taught me to play poker in 1996, it
was with the ulterior motive that if I learned to play and liked it,
maybe he could play more poker, too. Sure he was helping me get
what I wanted, but in the end, he got what he wanted: more opportunities to play.
In his wildest dreams, he never imagined that poker would
become my passion, and eventually my occupation.
That was back in the day when Florida poker was only in Indian
Bingo Halls, and cash games were played 25-cent, 50-cent limit,
with the pot frozen at ten bucks. To make the game more ridiculous, the house snatched $2.50 off the top before capping the pot.
You’d find mostly 7-card stud, occasionally Texas Hold’em.
Since poker is intended to be played for something of value,
Florida, in its infancy, had no real poker. It was simply showdown.
Forget bluffing or playing the player; it was just about the cards.
Today’s poker landscape reminds me of a sprawling metropolis compared to the swampland of days gone by. Over the years,
growth spurts followed landmark laws that raised the stakes and
eventually uncapped poker.
Once Florida laws changed to allow poker outside of Indian
Reservations and under pari-mutuel licenses, poker sprang up at
horse tracks, dog tracks and jai-alai frontons. It’s fascinating how
poker has turned some of these pari-mutuel facilities with very
short seasons into year-round businesses housing first-class card
rooms.
Only a couple of years ago, in order to find world class poker
action, I had to drive 12 hours or fly across the country. Today,
for Sunday entertainment, I’ll jump in my car at 3pm; arrive at a
card room in time for a 4pm, $60 tournament with a $1k first place
guarantee. That’s a once-a-month event with a fast structure and a
small field… a good return on my investment.
In this case, I actually like the fast structure. If I bust out early,
the $1-$2 No-Limit Hold’em is particular soft, especially on Sunday,
when players push to recoup their weekend losses.
Even though I advise my coaching clients against moving from
tournament to cash play because of the different mindset, I make
an exception in this case. The players are eager to chase with inferior hands, and it proves profitable.
The 29 card rooms in Florida are scattered around the state so
that wherever your family visits, you’ll likely discover poker nearby. You’ll find poker rooms near beaches and outdoor sports and
within driving distance of the Orlando attractions. Granted, Disney
is an active lobbyist against poker expansion in Florida, but what
else would we expect from Mickey?
According to VegasInc.com August 2012, Orlando ranked as
the number one convention destination in the United States, with
Washington DC second, and Las Vegas third.
Orlando outranks Las Vegas. I wonder what’s in the cards.
Whenever you’re planning a vacation, think Florida. It’s not just
a pretty face anymore.
Until next time, remember my motto: “If you can’t raise, don’t
call.”
Editor’s Note: Donna Blevins is a professional poker player and Poker
MindSet Coach, who shows players how to take control of their
mindset rather than let their minds control them. Donna serves
as both the Director of Marketing for the Poker Tournament
Director’s Association and the Florida State Director for Poker
Players Alliance. Contact Donna at: [email protected]; twitter:
@donna_blevins; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donna.
blevins.75 or at the website: www.PokerMindSetAcademy.com
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Aria
Avi Resort & Casino-Laughlin
Bally’s
Bill’s Gambling Hall & Saloon
Caesars Palace
Cannery Casino-Eastside
Circus Circus
Club Fortune-Henderson
Colorado Belle-Laughlin
Edgewater-Laughlin
Excalibur
Eureka-Mesquite
Fitzgeralds
Golden Nugget (3)
Golden Nugget-Laughlin
Green Valley Ranch
Hard Rock
Harrah’s Las Vegas
Harrah’s Laughlin
Imperial Palace
Jokers Wild
Luxor
M Resort-Las Vegas
Mandalay Bay
MGM Grand
Mirage
Monte Carlo
Orleans
Palace Station
Palms
Planet Hollywood
Poker Palace
Red Rock Station
Rio Suite Casino
River Palms
Riverside-Laughlin
Riviera Poker Room
Sam’s Town
Santa Fe Station
South Point Casino
Stratosphere
CA—SAN DIEGO
& INLAND EMPIRE
CALIFORNIALOS ANGELES
NEVADA
NORTH
Sun Coast
Sunset Station
Texas Station
Treasure Island
Venetian
Wynn Las Vegas (2)
Atlantis Casino
Boomtown
Cactus Pete’s-Jackpot
Cal Neva Casino
Carson Valley Inn
Casino Fandango-Carson City
Circus Circus
Eldorado
Grand Sierra
Harrah’s Reno
Harvey’s Lake Tahoe
Montego Bay Cas. W Wendover
Peppermill
Rainbow Cas. W Wendover
Sands Regency, Reno
Winners Hotel/Casino-Winnemucca
Bicycle Casino
Crystal Casino
Diamond Jim’s
Hawaiian Gardens
Hollywood Park
Hustler Casino
Normandie Casino
Harrah’s Rincon
Lake Elsinore
Lucky Lady
Morongo
Oceans Eleven
Pala Casino
Pechanga
Santa Ysabel Casino
Soboba
Spotlight 29, Coachella
Sycuan
Viejas
Village Club
1P&
10A
11A&
2P&
9A&
7P
2P
2P
10A&
12P
9A&
6P
12P&
11A&
10A&
10A
7P
12P&
10A&
10A
1P
6P
10A&
10A&
10A&
7P
11A
9A&
12P&
11A
6P
10A&
10A&
6P
10A
6P
12P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
O H/L
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
O H/KL
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$125 1P&
$25 10A&
$65 11A&
$50 2P&
$70 9A&
$25+ 7P
$45 2P
$30+ 2P
$30 10A&
$30 12P
$35 9A&
$65 6P
$35+ 12P&
$55+ 11A&
$45 10A&
$40 10A
$40 6P
$60 12P&
$60 10A&
$45 10A
$50+ 7P
$25 6P
$35 10A&
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$80 7P
$60 11A
$50 9A&
$75 12P&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$60 10A&
$70 10A&
$18+ 6P
$105 10A
$65 6P
$40+ 12P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Lad
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Horse
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$125 1P&
$25 10A
$65 11A&
$50 2P&
$70 9A&
$25+ 7P
$45 2P
$30+ 2P
$30 10A
$30 12P
$35 9A&
$10+
$35+ 12P&
$55+ 11A&
$45 10A&
$40 10A
$80 7P
$60 12P&
$60 10A&
$45 10A
$50+ 1P
$25 6P
$35 10A&
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$120 7P
$60 11A
$50 9A&
$75 12P&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$60 10A&
$70 10A&
$18+ 6P
$105 10A
$65 6P
$40+ 12P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
Horse
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$125 1P&
$25 10A
$65 11A&
$50 2P&
$70 9A&
$25+ 7P
$45 2P
$30+ 2P
$30 10A&
$30 12P
$35 9A&
6P
$35+ 12P&
$55+ 11A&
$45 10A&
$40 10A
$40 6P
$60 12P&
$60 10A&
$45 10A
$50+ 7P
$25 6P
$35 10A&
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$80 7P
$60 11A
$50 9A&
$75 12P&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$60 10A&
$70 10A&
$18+ 6P
$105 10A
$65 6P
$40+ 12P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
10A
11A&
7P&
12P
7P
10A&
11A&
10A
7P
11A
NH
$18 10A
NH
$60 11A&
NH
$45 7P&
NH
$40+ 12P
NH
$55+ 7P
N H B $65+RE 10A&
NH
$45+ 11A&
NH
$40+ 10A
NH
$40+ 7P
NH
$40 11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
$18 10A
$60 11A&
$45 7P&
$40+ 12P
$40+ 7P
$65+RE 10A&
$45+ 11A&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$50+ 11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
$18 10A
$60 11A&
$45 7P&
$40+ 12P
$40+ 7P
$65+RE 10A&
$45+ 11A&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$40 11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
$50 11A&
$145 12P&
$140 12P&
$40 11A&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$20+
$10+ 10A&
6P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$17 11A
$30 10A&
$45 10A&
$30 6P&
$50 6P&
$50 8P
$45 2P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
11A&
12P&
12P
11A&
NH
NH
NH
NH
$50 11A&
$145 12P&
$140 12P
$40 11A&
7P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
10A&
12P
NH
N H Sh
$10+ 10A&
$20 6P
NH
NH
$50 11A&
$145 12P&
$140 12P
$40 11A&
$22+
7P
$10+ 10A&
$25+
11A
10A
10A&
6P&
6P&
8P
2P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$17 11A
$30 10A&
$45 10A&
$40 6P&
$50 6P&
$50 8P
$45 2P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$17 11A
$30 10A&
$45 10A&
$60 6P&
$80 6P&
$50 8P
$45 2P&
10A&
6P
12P
6P&
7P
6P
1P&
11A
6P
7P
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
$25 10A&
$20+ 6P
$40 12P
$30+ 6P&
$30+ 7P
$72+ 6P
$30+ 1P&
$40+ 11A
$50+ 6P
$200 7P
7P&
NH
10A
NHB
10A
NH
10A&
O
7P
NH
12P Wk3 N H
10A
NH
$40 7P&
$20+ 10A&
$25+ 10A
$30 10A&
$50+ 7P
$65 7P
$30 10A&
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
$40 7P&
$20+ 10A&
$25+ 10A
$30+ 10A&
$50+ 7P
$30 7P
$35 10A
NHB
NHB
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NHB
$25 10A&
$30 11A&
$36 6P
$40 10A
$25 10A
NH
NH
NH
N H Deepstack
NH
$30 10A&
$30 11A&
$36 6P
$40 10A
$25 10A
NH
NH
NH
N H Turbo
NH
10A
11A&
6P
10A&
10A
NH
NH
NH
N H Deepstack
NH
NHB
$25 10A&
Varies
$20+ 6P
NH
$50 12P
N H Deepstack $65+ 5P&
NH
$30+ 7P
NH
$62+ 6P
N H $60+RE 1P&
NH
$40+ 11A
NH
$50+ 6P
N H Dstack Tbo $140+ 7P
NHB
$25 10A&
Mixed Game $20+ 6P
NH
$40 12P
NH
$30 5P&
NH
$30+ 7P
NH
$65
N H $75+RE 1P&
NH
$40+ 11A
NH
$50+ 6P
NH
$140+ 7P
$40 7P&
$20+ 10A
$25+ 10A
$35+ 10A&
$50+ 10A
$30 7P
$25 10A
7P
$25 10A
$30 11A&
$36 6P
$15 + 10A&
$25 10A
NHB
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
N H Turbo
N H Survivor
NH
NHB
NH
NH
O
NH
$125 1P&
$25 10A&
$65 11A
$50 2P&
$70 9A&
$25+ 7P
$45 2P
$30+ 2P
$30 10A&
$30 12P
$35 9A&
$25+ 10A
$35+ 12P&
$55+ 11A&
$45 10A&
$40 10A
$40 6P
$60 12P&
$60 10A&
$45 10A
$50+ 1P
$25 6P
$35 10A&
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$80 7P
$60 7P&
$50 9A&
$75 12P&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$60 10A&
$70 10A&
$18+ 6P
$105 10A
$65
$40+ 12P&
6P
$18 10A
$60 11A&
$45 11P&
$40+ 12P
$40+ 6P
$65+RE 10A&
$45+ 11A&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$50+ 11A
7P
$50 11A&
$145 12P&
$140 12P
$40 7P
7P
7P
$10+ 10A&
$25+ 12P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
HORSE
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$17 11A
$30 10A&
$45 10A&
$60 6P&
$80 6P&
$50 8P&
$45 2P
7P
$25 10A&
$30+ 6P
$40 12P
$30 4P&
$50+ 7P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
Turbo
NH
NH
NH
$30+ 1P&
$40+ 11A
$50+ 6P
$180 7P
7P
$40 12P
$20+ 10A
$25+ 10A
$30+ 10A&
$40 10A
$55 7P
$35 12P
$20 7P
$30 10A&
$30 11A&
$36 6P
$15+ 10A&
$25 10A
NH
NH
NH
N H Deepstack
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
N H Deepstack
NH
$125 1P&
$25 10A
$65 11A
$50 2P&
$70 9A&
$25+ 7P
$45 2P
$30+ 2P
$30 10A
$30 12P
$35 9A&
$15+
$35+ 12P&
$55+ 11A&
$45 10A&
$40 10A
$40 6P
$60 12P&
$60 10A&
$45 10A
1P
$25 6P
$35 10A&
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$125 7P
$150 11A&
$50 9A&
$75 12P&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$60 10A&
$70 10A&
$18+ 6P
$105 10A
NH
$40+ 12P&
NH
$60 2P
NH
$18 10A
NH
$60 7P
NH
$45 11P&
NH
$40+ 12P
NH
$40+ 6P
N H B $65+RE 10A&
NH
$45+ 11A&
NH
$40+ 10A
NH
$40+ 7P
NH
$40 11A
NH
$35+
NH
$50 11A&
NH
$145 12P&
NH
$200 12P
NH
$120 11A
NH
$22+
NH
$75
NH
$10+ 10A&
N H Sh
$20 12P
$17 10A
$30 10A
$45 10A&
$60 6P&
$100 10A&
$80 8P
$55 1P
$40
$25 10A&
$20+ 6P
$40 12P
$40 4P&
$30+ 7P
1P
$10+ 10A&
$40+ 11A
$40+ 4P
$150 3P
$30 12P&
$40 11A&
$20+ 10A
$25+ 10A
$30+ 11A
$40 10A
$40 10A
$25 10A
$50 2P
$25 11A
$30 11A&
$54 6P
$40 10A&
$25 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
N H Sh
NH
NH
NH
NH
N H Turbo
NH
NH
NHB
Turbo
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
N H Deepstack
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
N H Deepstack
NH
$125 1P&
$25 10A
$65 11A
$50 2P&
$70 9A&
$25+ 7P
$45 2P
$30+ 2P
$30 10A&
$30 12P
$35 9A&
12P
$35+ 12P&
$55+ 11A&
$45 10A&
$40 10A
$40 6P
$60 12P&
$60 10A&
$45 10A
$50+ 1P
$25+ 6P
$35 10A&
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$125 7P
$60 11A&
$50 9A&
$75 12P&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$60 10A&
$70 10A&
$18+ 6P
$105 10A
6P
$40+ 12P&
$60
$18 10A
$125 11A&
$45 7P&
$40+ 12P
$40+ 7P
$65+RE 10A&
$45+ 11A&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$50+ 11A
10A
$50 11A&
$330 12P&
$200 12P
$75 11A
7P
12P
$10+ 10A&
$20 6P&
11A
$17 10A
$30 10A
$45 10A&
$60 6P&
$40 2P&
$80 4P
$115 1P&
7P
$25 10A&
$20+ 6P
$40 12P
$40 4P&
$30+ 7P
$30+ 1P
Varies 2A&
$75+ 11A
$50+ 4P
$150+RE 3P
$35 1P
$40 5P
$20+ 12P
$25+ 10A
$55 11A&
$75 11A
$40 12P
$25 10A
$40 2P
$40 1P&
$30 11A&
$54 6P
$40 10A&
$25 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
N H Lad
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
Varies
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$125
$25
$65
$50
$70
$25+
F
$30+
$30
$30
$35
F
$35+
$55+
$45
$40
$40
$60
$60
$45
$50+
$25+
$35
$55
$40
$80
$60
$50
$75
$30
$30
$60
$70
$18+
$105
$65
$40+
$18
$60
$45
$40+
$40+
$65+RE
$45+
$40+
$40+
$50+
$25+
$50
$145
$225
$75
$22+
$30+
$10+
$30
$45+
$17
$30
$45
$40
$60
$100
$35
$40
$130
Varies
$40
$40
$50+
$62
$50+RE
$40+
$50+
$150+
$5 or $15+
$50-$3Kguar
$7+
$25+
$45+
$100+
$65
$35
$25
$45
$30
$54
$20+
$25
DA I LY TO U R N A M E N T L I ST I N G S CO N T I N U E O N PAG E 1 1
10
June 3, 2013
DA I LY TO U R N A M E N T L I ST I N G S (CO N T I N U E D F R O M PAG E 1 0 )
CALIFORNIANORTH
|SATURDAY |SUNDAY
Angie’s Poker Club, Chico
Artichoke Joe’s
Aviator Casino
Bay 101
Black Oak Casino, Tuolumne
Black Sheep Inn, Cameron Park
Cache Creek
Cameo Club, Stockton
Casino 580, Livermore
Casino Club-Redding
Casino Marysville
Casino Real Cardroom
Casino Royale
Central Coast Casino, Grover Beach
Central Coast Casino, Paso Robles
Chukchansi Gold Casino
Chumash (13)
Club One Casino, Fresno
Colusa Casino
Comstock Card Room, Tracy
Cordova Casino
Del Rio Casino, Isleton
Eagle Mountain Cas.-Porterville
Elk Valley Cas.-Crescent City
Feather Falls Cas., Oroville
The 500 Club, Clovis
Folsom Lake Bowl
Garden City
Garlic Club-Gilroy
Gold Country Cas.-Oroville
Golden West-Bakersfield
Jackson Rancheria
Limelight Casino-Sacramento
Livermore Casino
Lucky Chances
Lucky Derby Casino
Merced Poker Room
Mike’s Card Casino. Oakdale
Napa Valley Casino
Oaks Card Club-Emeryville
Oceana Casino
Paiute Palace
Pastime Cardroom, Benicia
Pete’s 881 Club
Phoenix Casino
Pit River Casino
Poker Flats, Merced
Red Hawk Casino-Placerville
11A
11A
6P
9A
11A
NH
LH
NH
LH
NH
6P
7P
11A
NH
NH
NH
10A
11A
NH
NH
10A
NH
7P
7P
NH
NH
10A
2P
6P
6P
6P
10A&
7P
6P
$20 11A
$28+ 11A
$30+
$120 9A
$25 11A
NHB
LH
12P
$40+
$40+ 7P
$17 11A
7P
$20 10A
$35+RE 11A&
10A
$5
H
$10+ 7P
$50+ 6P
$50 10A
6P
NH
$25 6P
NH
$35 6P
NH
$45+ 6P
7P
NH
$45
NH Double Stack $120 10A&
NH
$35+ 7P
12P
NHB
$65 6P
NH
7P&
9A
9A
11A&
10A
7P
6P
9A
6P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
6P
1P
NH
NH
$40+ 7P&
$120+ 9A
$15 9A
$7 11A&
0+ 10A
$60
$140 6P
F+ 9A
$17+ 6P
7P
$80+
$40+ 1P
11A&
10A&
NH
NH
$15 11A&
$35 10A&
$32 11A
$25 6P
6P
$120 9A
$25 11A
NH
L&O H/L
NH
LH
NH
$20 11A
$50+ 11A
$25+ 6P
$60+ 9A
$25 11A
NH
LH
Mx
LH
NH
$20 11A
$48
$30+
$80+ 9A
$25 11A
$25+ 12P
6P
$40+ 7P
$17 11A
$30
$20 10A
$35+RE 11A&
F
10A
7P
$60 7P
$40+ 6P
O H/L
NH
NH
NH
$55 6P
$40+
$40+ 7P
$17 11A
7P
$20 10A
$35+RE 11A
10A
$25
$40 7P
$35 7P
$70 6P
6P
H
$10
NH
NH
O/8
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$40+ 7P
$17
$30
$20 10A
$35+RE 11A
$5
10A
$40 7P
$40 7P
$60+ 6P
$15+ 6P
NH
NH
NH
NH
$50 10A
6P
$25 6P
F+ 6P
$45+ 6P
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
$50 10A
$30+ 6P
$25 2P
$30
$45+ 6P
NH Double Stack
NH
NH
NH
$50 10A
$15
$35 2P
$30 6P
$45+ 6P
$66
6P
$120 10A&
$35+ 7P
$30 12P
$65 6P
NH
NH
NH
NHF
NH
$45
$120+ 10A&
$35+ 7P
$5 12P
$65 6P
NH
NH
NH
Varies
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$40+ 7P&
$275 9A
$15 9A
$7 11A&
0+ 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
6P
$40+ 7P&
$65+ 9A
$15 6P
$7 11A&
0+ 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
$120+RE 6P
F+ 9A&
$17+ 6P
F
NH
O H/L
NH
NH
$40+ 1P
NH
LH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
LH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
$15 11A&
$35 10A&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
$57 11A&
NH
2P
$120 9A
$25 11A
NH
LH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
LH
NH
$40+ 7P
3P
1P
$20 10A
$50 11A
10A
$5
$40 7P&
$150 10A
$70+
$30+ 4P
12P
$50 10A
$15 6P
$25
NH
$50+ 12P
LH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$20 11A&
6P
$25 6P
$200 9A
$25 11A
2P
NH
NH
Mx
LH
NH
NH
$32
$49+
$30+
$80
$25
$55
10A
$40+ 7P
$37 3P
F 1P
$20 10A
$50 11A&
$10
LH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$30+
$40+
$37
$30
$20
$50
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$40
$80
$60+
$170
$40+
$50
NH
NH
$35+
$35
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
F
$20
Varies
$35
$40
$50
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$80
$225+
$30
$7
0+
$40
$125+
F+
$23+
O/8
Po O
NH
$45+
40+
$30+
NH
$35
$50 5P
$10+ 10A
1P
NH
$30+ 2P Wk2
NH
$40+ 12P
NH
$50 10A
LH
$15
12P
6P
NH
Varies
2P
12P
NH Double Stack $150 10A&
NH
$35 6P
NH
$40 12P
NH
$65 2P
NH
$50
NH
NH
NH Double Stack
NH
N O H/L
NH
NH
$150 10A&
$35 6P
$40 12P
$35 2P
$50 11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$80+ 10A&
$35+ 6P
$40+ 12P
Varies 10A&
11A
$40+RE
$40+ 7P&
$120+
$70 9A
$7 11A&
0+ 10A
NH
$100 7P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
$100+
F+ 9A
$23+ 6P
7P
NH
NH
NH
F+ 9A&
$12+ 6P
F
NH
NH
$15 9A
$7 11A&
0+ 10A
9A&
11A
F+ 9A
$23+ 5P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$100 7P&
9A
$60 10A
$7 11A&
0+ 10A
$40 9A&
$120+RE 1P
F+ 9A
$22+ 6P
$40+ 1P
7P
$15 11A&
$35 10A&
NH
NH
NH
NH
$40+ 5P
$30+ 7P
$15 11A&
$35 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
12P
$25 7P
$30+ 7P
$15 5P
$35 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$55+ 6P
$60 1P
$30+ 3P
$40
$35 10A
P L AY E R
RPLA
A N KYER
INGS
POKER
q denotes upward mover; [ denotes event winner
H.O.R.S.E.
1 Janet Pak
2 Donnie Mac
3 Clifton Ward
4 Clifford Kitey
5 Gioi Luong
6 Pamela Buzzetto
7 Perry Burrell
8 Samuel Panzica
9 Steve Stencil
10 Cyndy Violette
11 Dave Recke
12 Brent Becker
13 Jordan Shepard
14 Leonard Cortellino
15 Robert Minow q
16 Brendan Norton
17 Shawn Kerwin
18 Larry Kantor
19 Robert Campbell
20 Rick Muniz
21 Fred Cohen
22 Jeff Dobrin
23 Adam Friedman
24 John Simcox
25 Timothy Pong
pts
131
120
100
95
95
90
85
85
82
80
80
77
75
75
74
72
72
70
70
69
67
67
66
65
65
$$
2
2
NL HOLD’EM
1 Joe Kuether q
2 Michael Linster q
3 Allie Prescott q
4 Stephen Bokor [
5 Patrick Karschamroon
6 Michael Dentale
7 Cuong Phung q
8 James Anderson q
9 Ryan Hartman q
10 Brett Shaffer q
pts
323
277
247
246
245
229
228
221
214
212
$$
4
5
4
5
4
3
3
3
2
4
2
Visit the NRATPP web site—www.nratpp.com—for more details on the ranking system
OMAHA H/L
1 Michael Oar q
2 Michael Moed
3 Larry Siegel
4 Scott Epstein
5 Michael Bickel q
6 William Buckley q
7 Aitan Hillel
8 David Deanda
9 Marshall Ragir
10 Ylon Schwartz
11 Frankie O'Dell
12 Terry Wells [
13 Robert Renner
14 John Holley III
15 Hermilo Vargas [
16 Steve Solomon q
17 Yuebin Guo q
18 Don Zewin
19 Gene Chase
20 Ron Fast
21 David Whitfield
22 Stephen Gibbs
23 Eric Varnado
24 Robert Scofield
25 Ron Winkelvoss
pts
207
173
160
154
148
142
137
137
137
137
135
132
129
125
121
105
103
102
102
102
100
100
98
98
98
$$
5
3
2
4
3
2
3
2
2
2
4
2
2
3
2
2
3
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
207
201
197
197
196
195
193
193
189
187
Hung Truong q
Michael Sica
Patrick Halter
Paul Sokoloff
Paul Volpe q
Idris Gencoglu
Jeffrey Fielder
Mario Rodriguez q
Jacob Schindler q
Joshua Suyat q
pts
131
128
118
104
102
102
102
100
100
100
100
97
97
97
96
95
95
95
92
92
91
90
90
90
90
$$
2
2
2
2
2
PLO
1 Eric Garcia [
2 Joshua Reichard
3 Patrick Murphy
4 Chris Lillie q
5 Alan Neubauer
6 David Nicholson
7 Robert Slagle
8 Alexander Ahmed
9 Christopher Conrad
10 Michael Linster
11 Ray Henson [
12 Brennan Benglis q
13 George Ward
14 Kyle Cartwright
15 Doug Carli
16 Kenneth Ruderman
17 Michael Schneider
18 William West q
19 Harry Baldwin
20 Ryan Rowland
21 Justin Young
22 Donald Walsh
23 Najib Bennani
24 Raymond Bush
25 Shawn Daniels q
3
3
2
3
2
2
2
3
3
3
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
185
183
183
181
178
178
177
177
177
175
3
2
3
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
2
Lily Newhouse q
Hoa Minh Nguyen q
Michael Nia
Larry Quang
Blake Bohn q
Paul Phillips
Charles Coultas
David Tuthill
Dennis Thurman q
John Holley q
2
2
2
PLO H/L
1 Gebrehiwet Goitom
2 Randy Gonzales
3 Jan Sjavik
4 Zachary Milchman
5 Steven Weiler
6 Colman Roy
7 Mark Madorsky
8 Mark Novisoft
9 Jack Rosenfeldt
10 Federico Quevedo
11 Rovert Minow
12 Richard Ponterio
13 Lila Murcia
14 Alex Cohen
15 Kegham Dawidian
16 Marla Crumpler
17 Ryan Stalder
18 Liem Tram
19 Ricardo Alvarado
20 Willie Navarro
21 Vatche Mehserdjian
22 Cecil Belda
23 Charles Chan
24 Gioi Luong
25 Robert Renner
pts
129
121
100
100
99
95
95
95
94
90
90
89
86
85
85
85
84
80
80
80
79
75
75
75
74
$$
2
2
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
174
172
170
169
169
168
164
162
161
161
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
4
2
2
Jonathan Hilton
Nathan Bjerno
Everett Carlton
Daniel Sindelar
Lily Kiletto
Robert Brown [
Ray Qartomy [
Stuart Paterson q
Bruce Kramer
Paul Klann q
2
LIMIT HOLD’EM
1 Marwan Abdel-al
2 Chris Truong
3 Eugene Castro
4 Suren Davtyan
5 Tony Nasr
6 Pho Van Tran
7 Aldon Patatanyan
8 Julien Vega
9 Raymond Mccabe
10 Frank Pastella
11 Nicholas Myles
12 Yuri Zeltser
13 Troy Skinner
14 Jason Ross
15 Wendy Freedman
16 Aidin Taali
17 Eric Vanauken [
18 Charles Maynard
19 Eric Suarez
20 Raouf Eshak
21 Joseph Mckeehen q
22 Doug Marram
23 Charles Pollard
24 Leroy Gunderson
25 Mark Chilton
pts $$
60
55
52
50
47
45
42 2
42
40
37
37
35
34
32
32
30
30
29
27
25
25
24
22
22
22
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
160
159
159
158
158
157
157
157
157
157
Pradeep Buddharaju
Pedro Rios q
William Pappas q
David Gonia q
Thomas Gleason
Alex Bylicki
Huicun Qiao
Joseph Mckeehen [
Kyle Bowker
Thomas Beckstad
June 3, 2013
2
3
2
2
3
2
2
2
3
2
11
Time. Some events &.......... Additional
.Limit Hold’em
start after the hour
gametimes. Call. N...........No Limit
A, P........ AM, PM
. .... Hold’em L................. Limit
Wk..............Week
..No Limit Hold’em
...........Stud
DAILY TOURNAMENTS (Cont’d from page 11)
T................ Turbo
Sp L....Spread Limit
..7-Card Stud
...... Omaha Pi........Pineapple Mx.. Mexican Poker HH....Headhunter Al.......Alternates
..5-Card Stud H/L.High/Low Split Po.........Pot Limit DC.Dealer’s Choice B.......... Bounties Z......... Freezeout
Cz.............. Crazy +.Re-buys and/or
E....... Elimination Add-ons allowed
Q.............Qualify +RE........ Re-Entry
Sh.........Shootout F.............Freeroll
CALIFORNIANORTH
|SATURDAY |SUNDAY
SOUTHWEST
AZ
CO
KS
NM
NORTHEAST
OK
CT
DE
NH
NJ
NY
River Rock Casino-Geyserville
Sho Ka Wah, Hopland
Tachi Palace Casino
The 101 Casino
Thunder Valley Casino, Lincoln
Towers Casino-Grass Valley
Turlock Poker Room
Wine Country Casino
Win-River Casino, Redding
Apache Gold
Blue Water Casino
Bucky’s Casino
Casino Ariz.-Scottsdale
Casino Del Sol
Cliff Castle
Fort McDowell
Gila River/Wild Horse Pass
Gila River-Vee Quiva
Harrah’s Ak Chin
Hon-Dah Casino
Paradise Casino
Double Eagle
Isle Casino-Black Hawk
Lady Luck-Blackhawk
Midnight Rose-Cripple Crk
Sky Ute-Ignacio
Ute Mountain Casino-Towaoc
Golden Eagle
Buffalo Thunder
Hardrock Albuquerque
Route 66 Casino
Sandia Casino (4)
Santa Ana Star
Casino Oklahoma-Hinton
Cherokee-Roland
Cherokee-W. Siloam
Choctaw
Comanche Red River Cas.
Downstream
Firelake Grand Casino
Hard Rock-Tulsa
Riverwind
WinStar World Casino
Foxwoods
Mohegan Sun (9)
Delaware Park (16)
Dover Downs
Harrington Raceway
Rockingham Park, Salem
The Lodge at Belmont
Borgata
Caesars Atlantic City
Harrah’s Atlantic City
Revel
Showboat
Tropicana
Trump Taj Mahal
Seneca Allegheny
Seneca Niagara
Turning Stone
5P
NH
7P
1P
12P
10A&
10A&
6P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
11A
10A
10A
12P&
12P
11A
NH
HZ
N H Sh
NH
NH
7B
7P
NH
8P
7P
7P
2P
NH
NH
NH
NH
2P
11A&
NH
NH
11A&
NH
7P
10A
2P&
12P
11A&
11A
10A&
11A&
7P
6P&
9A
7P&
1P&
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
12P
11A&
3P
10A&
8P&
11A&
11A&
6P
10A&
10A&
12P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
7P
$55+
7P
$20+ 7P
$40 1P
$30 12P
$15 10A&
$30 10A&
$25+ 6P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$50 7P
$50
$40 1P
$30 12P
$15 10A&
$30 10A&
$25+ 6P
6P
12P
$60 7P
$10+ 10A
$25 10A
$30 12P&
$25+ 7P
$20 11A
7P
H
NH
O H/L Z
L H Sh
NH
NHZ
HB
O H/L
$25+
$130 7P
$10+ 10A
$25 10A&
$30 12P&
$50 7P
$20 11A
$25+
6P
$50
10A
$60 7P
$30+ 11A
$20+
$44
6P
$10+ 2P
$25 11A&
7P
$30 11A&
$50
$35+ 10A
$60+ 2P&
$30+ 12P
$30 11A&
$30 11A&
$35 10A&
$40 11A&
$115 7P
$160 6P&
$60+ 9A
$60 7P&
$65 1P&
11A
6P
$80 12P
$100 11A&
$80+ 3P
$50 10A&
$85 8P&
$65 11A&
$62 11A&
$120 6P
$60 10A&
$90 10A&
$70 12P&
Cz Pi H/L
$45
7P
NH
NH
$50 7P
$20 11A
NH
NH
NH
Var
NH
$40+RE
$20+ 2P
$25 11A&
$35
$30 11A&
7P
1P&
$35+ 10A
$60+ 2P&
$30+ 12P
$30 11A&
$30 11A&
$35 10A&
$40 11A&
$60 1P
$120 6P&
$60+ 9A
$60 7P&
$65 1P&
$60
$40 6P
$80 12P
$80 11A&
$80+ 3P
$50 10A&
$90 8P&
$65 11A&
$62 11A&
$65 6P
$60 11A&
$45 10A&
$50 12P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
H
NH
Cz Pi Z
N H Sh
NH
NH
HB
NH
$55
5P
11A
$60
7P
$40 1P
$30 12P
$15 10A&
$35 10A&
$25+ 6P
$25+ 7P
7P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
O H/L
HB
$50
$40 11A
$30 12P
$15 10A&
$30 10A&
F+
$20
$25
$130 11A
$10+ 10A
$25 10A
$30 12P&
$20+ 12P
$20 11A
7P
$40 6P
NH
NHZ
L H Sh
NH
Men N H
HB
NH
O H/L
$60 11A
$10+ 10A
$25 10A
$30 12P&
$25+
$20
$10+ 7P
$40
NH
Pi
N H Sh
NH
NH
NH
NH
$60
10A
O H/L
NH
NH
$50+ 7P
$20 11A
7P
6P
NHB
NH
O
NH
NH
NH
$5+ 2P
$25 11A&
7P
$30 11A&
$35+
$30+ 1P
$35+ 10A
$60+ 2P&
$30+ 12P
$30 11A&
$30 11A&
$35 10A&
$60 11A&
$60 1P
$200 6P&
$60+ 9A
$60 7P&
$65 1P
11A
$40 6P
$80 12P
$120 11A&
$80+ 3P
$50 10A&
$80 8P&
$65 11A&
$62 11A&
$65 6P
$60 6P
$55+ 10A&
$50 12P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
7P
$45 10A
7P&
$60
$20 11A
$20/F
$5+
6P
$20+ 2P
$25 11A
$50
$30 11A&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
N H Deepstack
NH
N H Sh
$30+ 1P
$35+ 10A
$60+ 7P&
$30+ 12P
$30 11A&
$30 11A&
$35 10A&
$85 11A
$115 11A
$180 6P&
$60+ 9A
$60 7P&
$65 1P&
$60
$40 6P
$80 12P
$100 12P&
$80+ 3P
$50 10A&
$85 8P&
$65 11A&
$62 11A&
$120 6P
$90 4P
$45 1P&
$70 12P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHZ
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
H
NH
$55
$75 5P
$60
$115
$60 11A
$30 12P
$15 10A&
$50 1P
F+ 5P
3P
2P
$25+ 1P
$150
NH
NH
$80+ 10A
$5 12P&
O Sh
NH Deepstack
$25
$50
$40 3P
4P
1P
F
$45 12P
$60 12P
NHZ Deepstack
NH
O H/L
11A
$60+ 5P&
$30+ 4P
$13 1P
HB
N H B Ko
Cz Pi
H
$20
$60+
$30+
$13
NH
NH
$90 3P
$60 2P
NH
NH
$20 11A
NH
10A
NH
$55+ 5P
NH
$50 11A
NHB
1P Wk2&4 N H
$50 11A
NH
$30 12P
NH
$15 10A&
NH
$35 10A&
NH
11A
NH
12P
$60 10AWk4
$10+
$25 11A
$30 12P&
$105 11A
3P
3P
NH
$18+ 6P
N H $60+RE 6P Wk2&4 N H $60+RE 6P Wk1&3
NH
$20+ 2P
NH
$5+ 2P
NH
$25 1P
NH
$40 7P
12P
NH
$30 11A&
NH
$40 11A&
7P
NH
$45+ 2P
NH
$30+
1P&
NH
$35+ 10A
NH
$35+ 2P
NHB
$115 11A Wk1& O
$115 3P Wk1&
NH
$30+ 10A
NH
$25+ 10A
NH
$30 11A&
NH
$30 3P
NH
$30 2P
NHZ Deepstack $100 2P
NH
$35 10A&
NH
$35 10A&
NH
$40+ 11A
NHB
$85 11A&
NH
$165
NH
$230 6P&
NH
$120 6P&
NH
$60+ 9A
NH
$60+ 9A
NH
$145 7P&
NH
$145 7P&
NH
$65 1P&
NH
$65 1P&
11A
NH
$60+
NH
$60 2P
NH
$60 2P
NH
$80 12P
NH
$100 12P
NH
$200 11A&
N H Deepstack $180 11A&
NH
$80+ 1P
N H $100+ 7P
NH
$50 10A&
NH
$50 10A&
NH
$125 8P&
N H Deepstack $100 3P
NH
$65 11A&
NH
$65 11A&
NH
$62 11A
NH
$122 11A&
NH
$225 6P&
NH
$340 6P
NH
$35 12P
NH
$60 12P
N H Deepstack
$75 11A
NH
$70 11A&
NH
$90 11A&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
H
O H/L
7F
$15
$60
$30
$15
F
F+
$20+
$25
F
$60
NH
$20
NH
$10
O H/L
$45
Varies Varies
NH
$5+
NH
$25
Var
$35
O8
$40
NH
$35+
NH
$30+
NH
$60
N H Lad
$60
NH
$25+
NH
$30
NH Deepstack $120
NH
$35
NHZ
$40
N H B Survivor
NH
NH
NHB
$150
$60+
$60
$65
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$60
$100
$50+
$85+
$50
$110
$65
$62
$120
$60
$55
$125
Get Ready, Get Set for
the 2013 WSOP! The 44th
Annual World Series of Poker
kicks off on May 29 and runs
through July 15 with 62 coveted WSOP gold bracelets up
gathering of poker players.
Poker Player Newspaper
will have information on specially designed tournaments
offered throughout Vegas as
an alternative choice for play-
DEBBIE DOES POKER
By Debbie burkhead
for grabs in 2013 – which is
one more than last year. The
WSOP starts off in grand style
on Saturday June 1. Event
#6, The Millionaire Maker,
($1,500 no-limit hold’em) will
feature a one-day start, twoflight, single re-entry event,
where the winner will receive
$1,000,000!
The WSOP season is heaven for poker players; the tournament draws tens of thousands of poker players from
all over the world, and Las
Vegas cardrooms prepare well
in advance to offer a variety of
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NH
NH
NH
NH
$60 11A&
$60 10A&
7P
$50 12P&
$100 11A
$100 12P
$100
$50+ 12P
$50 7P
NH
Sit N Go
NH
NH
NH
NH
6P&
7P&
1P&
8P
NHB
N H Deepstack
NH
NH
$25 6P&
$120 7P&
$25+ 1P&
$40 8P
6P&
12P
12P&
1P&
12P&
12P&
7P
1P&
7P
12P&
NH
NH
Sit N Go
NH
NH
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
NH
$60 6P&
$100 12P
$45 12P&
$65 1P&
$50 12P&
$65 12P&
$50 1P
$65 1P&
$50
$150 12P&
11A&
1P&
12P&
NH
NH
NH
$100 6P&
$65 7P&
$45 1P&
$20 8P
7P
NH
$60 6P&
NH
$100 12P
Sit N Go
$42 12P&
NH
$35+
NH
$50
WSOPC Satellite $30+ 12P&
NH
$50 7P
NH
$45 1P&
7P
NHB
$120 12P&
7P
NH
$40 11A&
NH
$40 1P&
N H $230RE 7P
Var
$25+
11A
10A&
NH
Sit N Go
12P&
11A
12P
7P
12P
7P
$40 11A&
$40 1P&
$120RE 12P&
8P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$80 11A&
$60 10A&
$120 12P
$50 12P&
$100
$100 12P
7P
$50+ 12P
$50 7P
$80 11A&
$60 10A&
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$50 12P&
7P
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$100 12P
N H Big Stack $150
NH
$50+ 12P
NH
$50 7P
7P
NHB
$25 6P&
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$80 12P
N H DeepStack $60 1P&
N H $50+RE 8P
NH
$55+
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$60 6P&
NH
$100 12P
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$45 12P&
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12P&
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$30+ 12P&
NH
$100 7P
NH
$65 1P&
NH
$20+
NHB
$150 12P&
NH
$35 7P
NH
$40 11A&
NH
$20 1P&
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Sit N Go
NH
NH
NH
Sit N Go
NH
NH
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$80 11A
$60 10A&
$120
$50 12P&
$125
$100 12P
NH
$50 12P
NH
$50
NH
$100 7P
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7P
NH
$60 6P&
NH
$100 12P
Sit N Go
$42 12P&
NH
$35+ 7P
NH
$65 6P
NH
$65+ 12P&
NH
$100 7P
NH
$45 1P&
NHB
$150 12P&
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$40 11A&
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$80 1P&
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$230
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NH
$225 12A&
NH
$75
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NH
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NH
$100
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NH
$50+ 12P
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NH
$50
NH
$50 7P
NH
$50 7P&
NH
$100
NH
$100 6P&
NHB
$100 5P&
NHB
$50
NH
$120 7P
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$140 1P&
N H Super Deepstack $275
NH
$60 1P
N H DeepStack $60
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NH
$30 2P
NH
Varies
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$80 4P
NH
$55
NH
$60 6P&
NH
$120 6P&
NH
$60
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$100 10A
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$100 12P
N H Deepstack Varies
Sit N Go
$45 12P&
Sit N Go
$45 12P&
Sit N Go
$45
NH
$45 1P
NH
$120 1P
NH
$65
N H Deepstack
$115 12P
N H Deepstack
$115 12P&
NH
$115
N H $100+ 12P&
Deepstack $120+ 12P&
N H $100+
NH
$50 7P&
NH
$100 7P&
NH
$50
N H Deepstack
$115 1P&
N H Deepstack
$65
7P
NH
$50 2P
NH
$40
NH
$100 12P&
NH
$65 12P&
NHB
$150
NH
$60 1P&
NHB
$50 6P
N H MiniDeepstack
$70
NH
$75 11A&
NH
$100 11A&
NH
$40
NH
$40 1P&
N H Dbl Megastack
$80 1P&
N H No Rake $200
NH
$120 12P&
NH
$120 12P exc Wk4 N H
$350
NH
Sit N Go
$80 11A
$60 10A&
12P
$65 12P&
11A
$100 12P
7P
$150 12P
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By Bob Popper
If you are looking for
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They also have a first
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Poker players can
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Caro’s Word: “Stabilize”
conTinueD FROM PAGE 4
player won’t necessarily
make you a winner. Why
not? It’s because the gap
between your performance
and your opponents’ is
what matters. That means
a less-skillful player in
weaker games might make
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games might go broke. It’s
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And you should always
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And if you constantly try
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profitable. And you cannot
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pots you enter than your
opponents. That’s because
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And if you routinely select
challenging games, rather
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Okay, that takes care of
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next question?
Question 5: Is it back
to me? Okay, final question: What was it you
said about needing to
stabilize?
One thing that destroys
poker bankrolls is failure to stabilize. It simply
means that you need a
basic, high-profit game
plan to fall back on.
It should be your everyday strategy. You should
only change tactics within
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a compelling reason.
Changing at whim or when
unnecessary costs money.
Big money.
Sometimes you can
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it. But be sure you have
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Always be ready to return
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– stabilize. So, the trick is
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When you ask yourself
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you’ll be surprised how
often the answer is yes.
And then you can steer
straight toward the money.
But if you don’t ask yourself the question, you’ll
squander money by staying
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It’s just that simple.
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authority on poker strategy,
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renowned player and founder of Mike Caro University
of Poker, Gaming, and Life
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“the Mad Genius of Poker,”
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research. You can visit him
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e-mail him at mike@caro.
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